pronounce sentence

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Only reduction of Comrade Yagoda's power seemed to be in transferring to Soviet courts the Ogpu's right to pronounce sentence of Death.

From Time Magazine Archive

On a cold rainy day last week, curious Parisians packed a dingy courtroom in the Palais de Justice to hear a red-robed judge pronounce sentence on Mathilde Carre.

From Time Magazine Archive

And in imagination she saw the judge's old hands put the black cap on his head and begin to pronounce sentence….

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

“My King, my lord and my uncle. Is it the court’s will that I pronounce sentence upon this recreant traitor?”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

But if the evidence stands and the judge has to pronounce sentence, it is not easy to determine the course that should be followed.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome